A day and a night pass.
Dulcina Calvo felt an unusual heaviness in the back of her neck, and she forced her eyelids open, and in her eyes, darkness.
“Where is this?”
His brain, for a moment, switched off.
Evidently she was in a bridal store trying on wedding dresses … and then Esteban Zaragosa’s vigilante father suddenly appeared …
After that, it seems that she was knocked unconscious and taken away …
And the man who kidnapped her is the legitimate father of … Esteban Zaragosa?
The door to the room suddenly opened.
Orlondo Marta strides in, and Dulcina Calvo, who has not seen the light for so long, feels stung by the light coming in from outside, her hands unconsciously shielding her eyes.
“I hear you’re pregnant.”
Dulcina Calvo froze and, instead of answering his question, she asked, “Why are you doing this, old man? Aren’t you the righteous father of Esteban Zaragosa?”
Orlondo Marta had a cold gleam in her eyes, but when she looked at Dulcina Calvo, she smiled playfully, “Child, there is no one in this world who dares to call me an old man, you are the first. Don’t necessarily consider me really Lord Court Master.”
Dulcina Calvo just felt that the old man was sorry and it was completely different from the feeling she had when she first saw Orlondo Marta.
The old man in front of him, over 60 years old, has a full aura, but that aura is not a decent aura, but evil and delusional.
Dulcina Calvo cannot say what she feels, but the Marta Orlondo in front of her is both good and bad at the same time, unpredictable.
“What do you want, why have you tied me here, and where is this place?”
“This is Z, a kingdom that belongs to me. Here I have supreme power, and killing you is as simple as crushing an ant.”
Dulcina Calvo’s face was white, but she still had the courage to say, “You wouldn’t dare, if you killed me, Esteban Zaragosa would seek revenge on you!”.
He could have outdone me, and I wanted to pass on my life’s work to him, but now he doesn’t deserve it. I’ve taken him from under his nose and he hasn’t even noticed. He’s already lost the qualifications to be a top assassin, and even more so to have this throne of supreme ward master.”
“Who cares about being a murderer, every day I am afraid, someday I may die, and as for the throne you said, even if you gave it to Esteban Zaragosa, buy one and take another one for free, Esteban Zaragosa wouldn’t care!”.
Orlondo Marta’s eyes grew cold: “Do you know how many people have bled for this post? It represents the supreme power, it represents everything.”
Dulcina Calvo scoffed: “But Esteban Zaragosa and I just want to have a quiet life, why don’t you leave him alone?”.
Orlondo Marta became increasingly agitated and said angrily, “He has such good grades to spend a mediocre life with you? You’re wasting him.”
Dulcina Calvo glared at him, “You don’t even think of Esteban Zaragosa as if he were your own son, you only think of him as a usable pawn to be your right-hand man in the struggle for power, a man like you doesn’t deserve power!”
Orlondo Marta scoffed, “Child, you are the first person to say something like that to me, how dare you say that a man like me is not worthy of power? But the power, it is already firmly in my hands.”
“Why are you still not satisfied? Even without Esteban Zaragosa, there will be another person who will fight for power for you, why do you refuse to let him go?”
“Because I haven’t had an adversary for a long time. I expect Esteban to be my adversary. If you had not appeared, Stephen would have followed the path I had set for him and become the man who could start a bloody war.”
Dulcina Calvo thought the old man must be crazy: “You keep stirring up wars, you raise children to groom rivals, what a sad life you lead!
“Nonsense! How can a mere mortal like you understand a life as noble as mine? Your meticulous peace is nothing more than what we have paid for with our blood! The world would be a much stronger and better place if there were less trash like you in it.”
Dulcina Calvo just finds it ridiculous, “It’s a pity you’re not the head of a pyramid scam, your brainwashing skills are superb. It is true that I am useless, but Esteban Zaragosa needs me, you are not useless, but you are mean and ugly, and not only will Esteban Zaragosa turn his back on you, but one day the world will turn its back on you!”
“Z Nation is mine!”
“The people of Z have not seen the ugly face your great Court Lord really has! You only pursue the power you want to achieve under the guise of justice! You feed Esteban Zaragosa like a machine, you say you hope he will defeat you and become the next you, but you kidnap me and threaten him with me! You longed to be challenged by an equal enemy, but you were never willing to lose! You only did it to satisfy your terrible desire to win! You wanted to conquer the whole world.”
Orlondo Marta raised her eyes slightly: “Whoever has no desire to win or lose is not worthy to live in this world. The first day you come to this world, you should win. You have turned the once brave White Wolf into a wimp, and I have done you a favor by not killing you now.”
“Besides, I didn’t kidnap you, I just invited you as a guest.”
Dulcina Calvo scoffed, “Is this how you treat your guests when you lock me in here and restrict my freedom? Your hospitality is quite vile and disgusting.”
“That’s enough!”
The Lord of the Court in front of him, his patience apparently exhausted, drew his pistol and fired a shot straight into Dulcina Calvo’s ear.
The bullet, which hit the dark wall behind Dulcina Calvo.
Dulcina Calvo could almost feel the subtle sound of a bullet grazing her ear and could clearly hear her own heartbeat.
She tried to contain her immense fear and tried to calm herself, saying to herself….
The man in front of her was simply mad, and she was not to provoke him any further. If she fired one more shot, she would not graze his ear, but would hit him in the forehead.
She is pregnant and now that Esteban Zaragosa is not with her, it is her responsibility to protect her child.
No hard feelings … must pass until Esteban Zaragosa comes to her rescue.
Orlondo Marta growled coldly, stared at Dulcina Calvo’s miserable little face and asked, “Why don’t you say anything? You can go on accusing me, mistreating me, denigrating me.”
Dulcina Calvo also growled slightly: “It’s true that I can keep accusing you, mistreating you, denigrating you, but you have a gun in your hand and if I make you angry, your next shot won’t hit the wall behind me, but me, a human target. I say you are a funny person, stressing all the time that we are equals and I can criticize you, but you catch me here and point a gun at me. You don’t even need to accept my criticism of you, you want me to praise you.”
In the darkness, the man laughed softly, “You understand well, you’re very smart. But I also know that deep down you wouldn’t agree with me, so … I’ve come up with a new way to play.”
A new way to play …?
Dulcina Calvo’s thick, long eyelashes flickered fiercely as her instinct told her that Orlondo Marta, the wicked old woman, was going to fuck her to death!